The Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2016, open to all on the subject of Katherine Mansfield And Russia.

Topic

Essays that address all aspects of Katherine Mansfield and Russia, whether literary, cultural, historical, or biographical, are welcomed. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

KM and Chekhov

KM and Tolstoy

KM and Dostoevsky

KM and Russian Literature

KM and Marie Bashkirtseff

The Hogarth Press and Russia

Translating with Koteliansky

KM and Constance Garnett

KM and the Russian Revolution of 1917

KM, Gurdjieff and his Institute

KM and Russian Ballet and/or Theatre

Organizer

The Katherine Mansfield Society

Prizes

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies (the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press)

Deadline

31 August 2016

Guidelines

No entry fee is required.

All entries must be original works, in English. Plagiarism, which includes the use of a third party’s work or ideas, without written permission or proper acknowledgment, will result in disqualification.

Entries may not have been previously published and should not have been submitted for consideration elsewhere.

To be eligible, entries must comply with the word count. The judges reserve the right to disqualify entries which exceed the specified word limits.

Entries must be submitted in electronic format to the Chair of judges, who will acknowledge receipt of the entry. There should be no communication with other judges so that the anonymity of entries can be maintained.

All entries must be double spaced, with numbered pages in MS Word. Other formats cannot be considered by the judges.

Each entry must have a cover page with the title of the work, the author’s name, full mailing address, telephone number and email address. Every subsequent page must carry the title and a page number, but NOT the author’s name (to facilitate fair judging). The title page will be removed and replaced by an entry number before being sent to the judges, who, in accordance with the journal’s peer review procedures, will not be told the name, affiliation or any other information about the entrants.

Each entrant may submit only one essay per contest.

All entries are final. No revisions are accepted.

All entries must be received by the deadline; late submissions cannot be accepted.

The decisions of the judges are entirely their own, and are final. They will assess each entry for its contribution to the field, paying particular attention to the standard of scholarship and presentation, originality, and written style, as well as its relevance to the theme of the essay prize.

Entrants will be individually notified of the results by email before the winners are announced and usually within three months of the competition closing date.

Submissions of between 5000–6000 words (inclusive of endnotes), in Word format and using MHRA style formatting, should be emailed to the Guest Editor for this volume, Professor Galya Diment, accompanied by a 50 word biography: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org